A fleet is usually a large group of ships, but it can be any group of vessels like planes or cars that operate as a unit. A naval fleet is the largest formation of warships. A naval fleet at sea is like an army on land.
To sail; to float.
Noun
a group of warships organized as a tactical unit
Noun
a group of steamships operating together under the same ownership
Noun
group of motor vehicles operating together under the same ownership
Noun
group of aircraft operating together under the same ownership
Verb
disappear gradually; "The pain eventually passed off"
Verb
move along rapidly and lightly; skim or dart
Adjective S.
moving very fast; "fleet of foot"; "the fleet scurrying of squirrels"; "a swift current"; "swift flight of an arrow"; "a swift runner"
n. & a.
To sail; to float.
n. & a.
To fly swiftly; to pass over quickly; to hasten; to
flit as a light substance.
n. & a.
To slip on the whelps or the barrel of a capstan or
windlass; -- said of a cable or hawser.
v. t.
To pass over rapidly; to skin the surface of; as, a ship
that fleets the gulf.
v. t.
To hasten over; to cause to pass away lighty, or in mirth
and joy.
v. t.
To draw apart the blocks of; -- said of a tackle.
v. t.
To cause to slip down the barrel of a capstan or
windlass, as a rope or chain.
v. i.
Swift in motion; moving with velocity; light and quick in
going from place to place; nimble.
v. i.
Light; superficially thin; not penetrating deep, as soil.
v. i.
A number of vessels in company, especially war vessels;
also, the collective naval force of a country, etc.
v. i.
A flood; a creek or inlet; a bay or estuary; a river; --
obsolete, except as a place name, -- as Fleet Street in London.
v. i.
A former prison in London, which originally stood near a
stream, the Fleet (now filled up).
v. i.
To take the cream from; to skim.
Fleet
And in frail wood on Adrian Gulf doth fleet.2.
All the unaccomplished works of Nature's hand, . . . Dissolved on earth, fleet hither.3.
Fleet
Many young gentlemen flock to him, and fleet the time carelessly.3.
Fleet
In mail their horses clad, yet fleet and strong.2.
Fleet
Fleet
Together wove we nets to entrap the fish In floods and sedgy fleets.2.
Fleet
To sail; to float.
To pass over rapidly; to skin the surface of;
Swift in motion; moving with velocity; light and quick in going from place to place; nimble.
A number of vessels in company, especially war vessels; also, the collective naval force of a country, etc.
A flood; a creek or inlet; a bay or estuary; a river; -- obsolete, except as a place name, -- as Fleet Street in London.
To take the cream from; to skim.
Usage Examples
The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion.
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Other Usage ExamplesBuonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his was kept in order and increasing by staying in port but know he finds, I fancy, if Emperors hear the truth, that his fleet suffers more in a night than ours in one year.
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